Out of Office & Spam

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Hani Saadi

If I enable the "Out of Office" auto-reply feature,
Outlook will be replying to every email I receive which
includes spam mail. Replying to spam mail is quite
dangerous since it confirms I am a live email address.

How can I solve this problem?

Thanks.
 
Je Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:57:31 -0700, "Hani Saadi"
If I enable the "Out of Office" auto-reply feature,
Outlook will be replying to every email I receive which
includes spam mail. Replying to spam mail is quite
dangerous since it confirms I am a live email address.
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Yes and no. Some spammers use real addresses in the 'From:' or
'Reply-To:' fields. But most spam uses fakes, so at worst your Out of
Office reply will go to an uninterested party.

You might ask your own email administrator about this. There should be
some way to prevent sending auto-replies to certain domains.

Better yet would be to prevent the spam from entering in the first
place. How much spam do you get? What anti-spam tactics are used by
your ISP?
 
Hani Saadi said:
If I enable the "Out of Office" auto-reply feature,
Outlook will be replying to every email I receive which
includes spam mail. Replying to spam mail is quite
dangerous since it confirms I am a live email address.

How can I solve this problem?

Thanks.
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Eradicate the spam so you don't reply to it. How to eradicate the spam
depends on where you are implementing Out of Office (OO) assistant,
whether in an Exchange server or as a rule in Outlook. If using
Exchange, it is highly unlikely you will be sending auto-replies to
spammers since the default in Exchange is to send OO replies only to
internal users (i.e., those within your Exchange organization).
 
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